Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just simple myopia that has caused Vietnam to disappear from the American view. Embarrassment and guilt have made it easy to focus on other parts of the world, and think of Indochina, if at all, as a minor adjunct to some other problem, somewhere else...
...while the Carter administration would rather forget Vietnam, Hanoi would welcome renewed, this-time-peaceful relations with the United States. Since talks on the normalization of U.S.-Vietnam relations broke down last December, economic setbacks and natural disasters have forced Vietnam to reconsider its demands for the resumption of diplomatic relations. Saturday the State Department announced that Hanoi had dropped its demand for reparations...
...country's economic troubles have worsened as the Vietnamese drive to develop lags, and the preliminary goals of its five-year plan are not being met. In an attempt to attract foreign investment, Vietnam now permits full foreign ownership of certain kinds of firms, the first socialist nation to do so. It has also begun discussing with U.S companies the exploitation of its offshore oil. The Vietnamese need for normal diplomatic ties with the U.S. became acute when four tropical storms hit in one week, flooding the Mekong Delta rice fields. The floods destroyed as much as 80 per cent...
...with. Burns had contributed money to Howe opponent Lester Ralph, and has been active in Citizens for Participation in Political Action and other liberal groups in Somerville. Marie Howe personally lobbied against Burns in 1972, when the Democratic City Committee in Somerville met to debate his resolution condemning the Vietnam War. Four years later, John Howe's rationale for raising Burns's assessment was that he saw many names on the cooperative family houses. Burns appealed the decision, and the rest of the city's assessors granted an abatement...
...fall I had occasion to note a mood of closure and withdrawal that seems to be growing around us. I sense more than the contraction and spasm of isolation that would inevitably follow a period as expansive as the sixties and an experience as searing as the war in Vietnam. This mood of disaffiliation has these roots and others as well and it casts a longer shadow. We are coming to the end of the twentieth century, and the knowledge we bear weighs heavy. Part of our knowledge is the realization that systems, technological and ideological, in which...